Explaining devolution for Greater Manchester Explaining devolution for Greater Manchester

Cue cards for a speech - one minute per card

The central thrust of the speech, whoever the audience, emphasises before and after.

It shows why this is a meaningful change, not a pipe-dream, an abstract process change, or a piece of window dressing.

To bring the content of each card to life, you can provide a tangible before and after example. Which example you choose may depend on your area. So, if you print this out double-sided, it’s designed so that so there’s a blank space on the back of each card for you to write these examples in.

If you’ve got access to a projector then the slide deck that comes with this pack should help visualise some of the cue cards. Introduction

- **BRINGS** control closer to residents - more influence for councillors, more say for citizens
- **UNITES** the ten parts of Greater Manchester and makes us more independent
- **INFLUENCE** over our own destiny across key policy areas
- **PART** of Greater Manchester’s journey to being one of the best places in the world

Closer to power

- **LESS** reliant on Westminster - a level of government removed
- **MORE** freedom and flexibility - to come up with our own solutions
- **MORE** say for local people

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How it works

- **TEN** areas represented, uniting with a common purpose – as the Greater Manchester Combined Authority
- **NEW MAYOR** – but much more than that
- **GROUND-BREAKING** partnership between GMCA, the Mayor, the NHS, transport, police and fire service

Real autonomy

- **MORE** cohesive, coherent place, thanks to uniting of the areas behind shared goals all can control

- **NOT** just a ceremonial change, but a whole layer of bureaucracy removed

- **NEW** powers and a wider remit More Control

- **KEY POWERS** include health and care, public services, transport, planning and housing, sustainability, fire, police and crime, skills and employment, investment and business development

- **MORE** control of money and access to new funds to help growth and reform

- **THIS** means growth, choice, better planning across public services

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Joining up support systems

- **TRANSFORMING** our public services through integration at a local level
- **LOOKING AT NEW WAYS** to support people with ill health/difficult or complex lives
  - Identifying problems early
  - Helping tackle those problems
  - Learning from their experiences to support others

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Starting well, living well, aging well

- **FOUR** key areas in health and care:
  - Preventing ill health by helping people at every stage in life
  - Local community NHS, care and support services working better together
  - Hospitals working better together
  - Sharing our assets – buildings, roles, ideas and ways of working

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Making travel easier

- **DEVELOPING** a high quality, fully integrated transport system for Greater Manchester

- **SUPPORTING** our growth plans

- **BUILDING ON THE SUCCESS** of the Metrolink

  - Transforming the bus network
  - Being bike and pedestrian friendly
  - Ensuring roads are safe Right places for living and working

- **BUILDING** 9,000 more homes every year from now until 2020

- **TURNING** empty houses into new homes

- **A JOINT PLAN** to manage the supply of land for the industry, jobs and new homes we need across the region up to 2035

A cleaner, greener region

- **REDUCING** Greater Manchester’s carbon footprint to make the most of the region’s energy and resources
- **HELPING** businesses, residents and the public sector be more energy efficient
- **INVESTING** in our natural environment to respond to climate change and improve quality of life

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Making our area safer

- Police, fire and community safety **WORKING TOGETHER**
- **JOINTLY IDENTIFYING** and dealing with likely risks to the community
- **FOCUS ON PREVENTION** or early intervention, before problems become difficult to reverse

Skills that employers want

- **ECONOMIC INVESTMENT** has already created 8,500 new jobs

- **A FURTHER** 100,000 will be created by 2023

- **WORKING** with employers colleagues and agencies to give people the skills and qualifications that businesses really want Investing in our future

- **SUPPORTING GROWTH** across the region by removing barriers to investment, making it easier to set up new enterprises and helping existing business grow

- **ALREADY HELPED** more than 90 companies across Greater Manchester with around £165m though our core investment fund

The journey has begun...

- **MAKING** Greater Manchester one of the best places in the world to live, work and learn

- **LOTS** already happening, lots to do

- **CULMINATION** of a long history of working together

- **ELECTION** of a new Mayor in 2017